To make expectations clear, the HLS Library has established a Food & Drinks Policy and Sound Zones for specific activities throughout our space.
Whether you need to snack, hydrate, study quietly, work with a group, or take a phone call or video interview, this guide will help you find out what's okay to do and where.
Effective Fall 2021
Eating & Drinking
At this time, eating on campus is allowed only in designated areas or outdoors.
Please see the Law School's Return to Campus guidelines for a list of designated eating and drinking areas.
Drinks
Non-alcoholic drinks in covered containers are permitted throughout Library spaces with the exception of:
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Quiet Zones Areas for quiet reading and study. Please keep noise to a minimum and take conversations to other zones. Stairwells and other nooks are quiet zones, as sound in them carries to other areas. • Caspersen Room and Root Room |
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Collaboration Zones Areas for working in groups or talking quietly with others. The others you talk or work with must be present in the room! Please take calls to phone zones. • 2nd floor study rooms and booths
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Phone Zones Phone Zones are the only areas where talking on phones is permitted. Please keep ringers on silent throughout the Library. • 2d floor phone booths
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